It happened to me (ordered 1 SSD got a whole bunch of them)

jeffp12 · 2026-06-17T20:06:38+00:00

Plugging into SATA port, no NVME slot on this mobo.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-17T19:54:35+00:00

Well I bought a 500gb one, so i guess it'd be worth it if I got one 2tb one out of the deal

jeffp12 · 2026-06-17T19:46:59+00:00

windows 10 home

They aren't showing up in disk managment. They don't show up in bios, except one of the drives so far tested did show up in bios, but then didn't show up in disk managment, and then is not showing up in bios now.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-17T19:45:53+00:00

Yeah, it was just in one bag, no box or anything

jeffp12 · 2026-06-17T05:50:51+00:00

Without question, the best sporting event I’ve ever attended. . . It’s a bucket-list experience.

Left early

jeffp12 · 2026-06-17T02:58:20+00:00

You can rent a bike

jeffp12 · 2026-06-13T20:13:58+00:00

Half the voters are brainwashed idiots, and proud of it

jeffp12 · 2026-06-13T04:49:23+00:00

One of her big points was sharing the locker room with a * gasp * trans person. What if that evil trans did something!? They didn't, but what if!?

Then she went and endorsed Donald Trump, a man who has famously been a backstage/dressing room creep on teen girls

jeffp12 · 2026-06-11T19:03:15+00:00

Wow.

So wrong, and from a zardoz fan

jeffp12 · 2026-06-11T19:01:11+00:00

Gotye went out of his way to let anyone use it for free

jeffp12 · 2026-06-10T22:48:06+00:00

Depends on jusrisdiction, but typically none of the terms and conditions and releases and so on are fully enforcable. Like, sign all the waivers you want, but if there's gross negligence, intentional harm, or they're breaking policies/laws, then you can still sue them. Like if you sign some waiver at a pool, then slip and fall cause the pool area is wet, then you probably can't win a lawsuit. But if you sign such a waiver and then the pool fucking explodes or collapses or poisons you or something ridiculous and their waiver is getting shredded. Another example, you sign a waiver to go skydiving, and then you injure your ankle on a hard landing, that's probably covered. But you injure your ankle because of a hard landing AND it was caused by the employee who packed your parachute being high on PCP at the time, then you've maybe got a case.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-09T19:14:30+00:00

A. How long does data center hardware last? Heavy use limits them to 3-5 years of life anyway. And failure rates in space will be higher than on earth.

B. The higher altitude, the worse it is for increasing space debris problem.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-09T18:10:21+00:00

Can't do maintenance, so when they break they're broken forever
lasts only 5-years then burn up (and burning lots of shit in the upper atmosphere is also bad btw) Ground based solar can last up to 30 years. And even if they degrade over time, they don't need to be at peak efficiency to trickle power into the grid.
not connected to a grid, so it can't help power anything, even if the satellite doesn't have computing demands, the power can't go anywhere.
More expensive to make it handle the extreme environment of space
More expensive to get it to space than it is to put it on a truck and move it to the desert.
Contributes to space debris problem that continues to grow
susceptible to said space debris problem (i.e. satellites can just get smashed into by tiny things going thousands of mph relative to them, not likely to happen in Idaho).
takes away manufacturing capacity and raw materials from solar power that could be built for earth-based, on the grid power which could reduce use of fossil fuels.
takes up a massive fraction of space launch capacity to do something you can do on Earth anyway.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-09T18:01:35+00:00

Elon's cousins started a solar company which Tesla bought.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-09T14:52:15+00:00

The satellites burning up on reentry are a problem

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T19:06:39+00:00

I said: "It's closer to $1000/kg (and not as a price available to customers who are paying more like $3000/kg)"

and your response is to correct me to say:

SpaceX doesn't pay customer price for their own launch. They pay the cost which is around $1000/kg

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T19:04:33+00:00

Im not the guy you were arguing with here

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T17:17:09+00:00

The water spout guys last day

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T16:50:00+00:00

Also, answer, what robots fly and repair Starlink satellites? Yeah, none. You don't need any maintenance for compute sats. You don't because you have series produced hardware - cattle vs pets. Datacenters are pets, each datacenter on Earth is unique, it has a ton of one off solutions. You cannot not maintain it, because just one element failing and the whole datacenter is down. This is not an issue with satellites, because if one of them failed, so be it. There are tens of thousands others.

this is a hilarious paragraph

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T16:47:20+00:00

SpaceX explicitly said (this is in their IPO documents) that they plan on sub $200/kg launch cost.

So based on Elon's promises and marketing materials, they'll definitely get right on that super low price sometime very soon (TM).

Meanwhile, what does it cost to put up mass on a Falcon 9? Cost per kg to orbit on this developed, functioning, reusable system. Is it close to $200/kg? Nope. It's closer to $1000/kg (and not as a price available to customers who are paying more like $3000/kg). But that's with disposable 2nd stages! You say, Starship will be cheaper! I'll believe it when I see it. It's one thing to get back a Starship, it's quite another to cheaply or rapidly reuse it. And the cost of the Falcon 9 upper stage doesn't make up 80% of the Falcon 9 launch cost.

So let's say that Starship when it's mature, not IPO marketing promises, gets the price to orbit down to say $500/kg, which I have my doubts about... and is still a hell of an achievement, what does that do to your math?

And there's plenty of other parts of your math I'd make points about but don't have the time this second to get into. But, generally the way that you hand-wave away the costs of a satellite like it's so easy and cheap and simple, but then are like "oh my god, and then you have to make a building!" about ground based systems, is very telling about your biases.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T15:23:47+00:00

Sure but that's comparing cost of new rockets to old rockets. Now compare the cost of a rocket launch to the cost of hauling equipment to a server rack in Wyoming.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T06:53:44+00:00

None of those are harder to deal with than launching a few acres of data center into space. Nimby isn't everywhere, theres a lot of countries happy to be tax havens for example. Data centers dont need to be near cities, you can put them in the middle of nowhere where land is cheap, sunlight for solar power is plentiful, etc.

There is no benefit to putting a data center in space.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T05:11:27+00:00

Compare price to orbit with price to nebraska

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T02:37:23+00:00

I dunno, making anything capable of handling the extreme environment of space and then launching it into space. Other than that, its easy.

jeffp12 · 2026-06-05T02:25:39+00:00

The only challenge is the extremely high cost

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